gabriella cilmi
Small Screen
5:03PM Jess McGuire | I can still remember when I fell in love with the mighty gay brain of Simon Amstell. It was the summer of 06/07, and it was a beautiful time. I watched every single Never Mind The Buzzcocks episode on YouTube, and life was good. But then all the videos were removed due to copyright infringement! I couldn’t watch Simon Amstell anymore, and the world was an awful, empty place! More »
Germaine Greer And Gabriella Cilmi On Never Mind The Buzzcocks
5:03PM Jess McGuire | I can still remember when I fell in love with the mighty gay brain of Simon Amstell. It was the summer of 06/07, and it was a beautiful time. I watched every single Never Mind The Buzzcocks episode on YouTube, and life was good. But then all the videos were removed due to copyright infringement! I couldn’t watch Simon Amstell anymore, and the world was an awful, empty place! More » 
Music
4:48PM Jess McGuire | I thought you lot might find Patrick Donovan’s article in The Age about the Sound Relief concerts’ conception interesting, especially if you need something to occupy your time while you wait for the world’s most amazing collaboration ever to happen.
Gudinski’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since he announced details of the concerts that will be held simultaneously at the MCG and SCG tomorrow on Channel 9’s Australia Unites telethon last month.
The first person Gudinski spoke to was his former Frontier Touring partner and sometime rival Michael Chugg, who was already planning a concert with ARIA Awards organiser Mark Pope. They decided to run the concerts simultaneously under the one banner in two cities.
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The Story Behind This Weekend’s Sound Relief Concerts
4:48PM Jess McGuire | I thought you lot might find Patrick Donovan’s article in The Age about the Sound Relief concerts’ conception interesting, especially if you need something to occupy your time while you wait for the world’s most amazing collaboration ever to happen.
Gudinski’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since he announced details of the concerts that will be held simultaneously at the MCG and SCG tomorrow on Channel 9’s Australia Unites telethon last month.
The first person Gudinski spoke to was his former Frontier Touring partner and sometime rival Michael Chugg, who was already planning a concert with ARIA Awards organiser Mark Pope. They decided to run the concerts simultaneously under the one banner in two cities.
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Music
12:47PM Jess McGuire | I guess you know you’ve made some inroads in the US when you’ve grabbed the attention of the fabulous team from Go Fug Yourself. Although they have referred to ARIA award winning pop singer Gabriella Cilmi as a Random Fug…
Look how unhappy they are with Our Gabriella’s dress made of ties!
Necktie dresses? Never. Because they are NECKTIES. And that is a NECKTIE BELT. There’s a reason they put the word “neck” in there, people. BECAUSE THEY GO ON YOUR NECK. DO WE REALLY NEED TO TAKE REMEDIAL KINDERGARTEN-LEVEL ANATOMY TODAY? I CANNOT STOP SHOUTING. If I were in Clue, a candlestick would have dropped on my head by now and knocked me out cold.
Gabriella will know she’s truly made it when she gets her own section on Go Fug Yourself, like Abbie Cornish!
Thanks to Clem “Clam Bestof” Bastow for the heads up.
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Gabriella Cilmi Has Been Fugged!
12:47PM Jess McGuire | I guess you know you’ve made some inroads in the US when you’ve grabbed the attention of the fabulous team from Go Fug Yourself. Although they have referred to ARIA award winning pop singer Gabriella Cilmi as a Random Fug…
Look how unhappy they are with Our Gabriella’s dress made of ties!
Necktie dresses? Never. Because they are NECKTIES. And that is a NECKTIE BELT. There’s a reason they put the word “neck” in there, people. BECAUSE THEY GO ON YOUR NECK. DO WE REALLY NEED TO TAKE REMEDIAL KINDERGARTEN-LEVEL ANATOMY TODAY? I CANNOT STOP SHOUTING. If I were in Clue, a candlestick would have dropped on my head by now and knocked me out cold.
Gabriella will know she’s truly made it when she gets her own section on Go Fug Yourself, like Abbie Cornish!
Thanks to Clem “Clam Bestof” Bastow for the heads up.
MORE: Random Fug (To Us): Gabriella Cilmi More »
Music
1:56PM Jess McGuire | Just as they did for the 2004 tsunami benefit WaveAid, Midnight Oil have agreed to reunite for the Sound Relief concert at the MCG to raise money for victims of the recent Victorian bushfires. Use that spazzy dancing for good, Pete!
Some of the most popular acts in Australia, including Wolfmother, Jet, Paul Kelly, Gabriella Cilmi, Kasey Chambers and internationals Kings of Leon and Jack Johnson will play the Sound Relief bushfire benefit at the MCG on March 14. In a major coup for organisers, Labor MP Peter Garrett has agreed to reunite with iconic Australian rock group Midnight Oil.
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Midnight Oil Happy To Rock Once More For A Good Cause
1:56PM Jess McGuire | Just as they did for the 2004 tsunami benefit WaveAid, Midnight Oil have agreed to reunite for the Sound Relief concert at the MCG to raise money for victims of the recent Victorian bushfires. Use that spazzy dancing for good, Pete!
Some of the most popular acts in Australia, including Wolfmother, Jet, Paul Kelly, Gabriella Cilmi, Kasey Chambers and internationals Kings of Leon and Jack Johnson will play the Sound Relief bushfire benefit at the MCG on March 14. In a major coup for organisers, Labor MP Peter Garrett has agreed to reunite with iconic Australian rock group Midnight Oil.
Wanna hear a few more acts that are playing there? More »
People
11:32AM Jess McGuire | The Daily Telegraph seems to think Gabriella Cilmi’s promise to stop singing for one whole day will give haters of Sweet About Me some much needed respite, but unless you loathe the song AND you are (for some unknown reason, considering you hate her biggest hit) going to Gabriella’s live show during that time, I can’t see how it would benefit you in any real way. She’ll still be getting flogged on the radio!
For those are sick of hearing done-to-death track Sweet About Me be rest assured- Gabriella Cilmi has vowed to stop singing.
For two days, anyway. She will give up her vocals instead of food for the World Vision 24 Hour famine, which starts February 13.
HANG ON A SECOND. I’m no mathematician, but I am fairly sure the numbers don’t add up. More »
Gabriella Cilmi Promises To Keep Her Mouth Shut For 24 Hours
11:32AM Jess McGuire | The Daily Telegraph seems to think Gabriella Cilmi’s promise to stop singing for one whole day will give haters of Sweet About Me some much needed respite, but unless you loathe the song AND you are (for some unknown reason, considering you hate her biggest hit) going to Gabriella’s live show during that time, I can’t see how it would benefit you in any real way. She’ll still be getting flogged on the radio!
For those are sick of hearing done-to-death track Sweet About Me be rest assured- Gabriella Cilmi has vowed to stop singing.
For two days, anyway. She will give up her vocals instead of food for the World Vision 24 Hour famine, which starts February 13.
HANG ON A SECOND. I’m no mathematician, but I am fairly sure the numbers don’t add up. More »
Gabriella Cilmi Denies Delivering Her ARIA Acceptance Speeches Under The Influence Of Alcohol
11:39AM Jess McGuire | Good lord, “The Public” – just lay off Gabriella Cilmi, alright? The Daily Telegraph reports that following the teenage singer’s victorious appearance at this year’s ARIA Awards, hundreds of Cilmi-fans immediately headed to the mysterious and cutthroat world of Internet Posts TM and accused the singer of being half-cut when she took to the stage.
Poor Gabriella has had to hit back at the claims, saying she was suffering from exhaustion (that old chestnut!) and that’s why her various acceptance speeches sounded like the inarticulate thoughts of a teenage girl from the suburbs who was a little overwhelmed after winning every single prize handed out during the ceremony, including the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Underage popstar Gabriella Cilmi has blamed exhaustion and not the demon drink for her under-the-weather appearance as the ARIAs wore on.
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Would You Like To See A New Gabriella Cilmi Clip?
3:30PM Jess McGuire | Perhaps you would. Therefore, here is something that isn’t Sweet About Me – it’s called Save The Lies (Good To Me), and the ever brilliant Pop Justice says:
Anyway as well as sounding quite different from ‘Sweet About Me’ ‘Save The Lies’ comes with a video which is totally not boring (unlike the ‘Sweet About Me’ video which was so tedious that our boringometer exploded and is still awaiting repair).
Warning: contains images of a Newton Faulkner lookalike nature.
Let’s have a peep, shall we?
She looks awesome, but I’m not sure about the song – it seems to be lacking something. But what do I know? I’ve put Phil Collins forward as the man responsible for the greatest song ever written. I am about as relevant to music right now as the sock my dog is chewing as I type. More » 
Getting To Know Gabriella Cilmi (Part Two)
2:34PM Jess McGuire | Now that we’ve learned a few fun facts about Gabriella Cilmi, let us assess her musical worth via a collection of video clips courtesy of YouTube.
Shall we start with the official video for her single ‘Sweet About Me’?
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When WAGS Go Bad
1:13PM Jess McGuire | Frankly, there are so many highlights in this article about footballer Brent Harvey’s partner Shayne McClintock’s fisticuffs with a woman who insulted her after snatching a pillow from her son Cooper (and shortly afterwards, the lady who tried to stop Shayne laying the smackdown on aforementioned insult-slinging woman), we’re almost beside ourselves.
The partner of Kangaroos footy star Brent Harvey has escaped conviction for punching two mothers at a children’s play centre after one of them called her “trailer trash”.
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Ms McClintock ran at Ms Nance, who was carrying her one-year-old, and punched her in the head from behind. Off-duty officer Tania Perry, who was holding hands with her two-year-old, was belted in the jaw by Ms McClintock as she tried to pull her off Ms Nance.
A well-timed fist to the skull is undoubtedly the smartest way to clear up any misconceptions folk may have regarding how classy you are.
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Getting To Know Gabriella Cilmi (Part One)
12:13PM Jess McGuire | In anticipation of her forthcoming appearance on Sunday night’s episode of Rove, we thought we’d better start finding out some stuff about Gabriella Cilmi, the Melbourne teenager who is, according to many press reports, going to be the music world’s “next big thing” (and god knows the press never gets that prediction wrong).
Knowing nearly absolutely nothing about Ms Cilmi, we hit the streets – and by streets, we obviously mean “search engines” – and have hastily bashed together a dossier of facts about her which would put self-proclaimed intelligence gathering organisations like the CIA to shame. Or something.
After the jump, let’s begin our GabFest with some nuggets of information about the youthful lass, helpfully presented in easily digestible bullet form. More » 
